
Anis Ben BrikHamad bin Khalifa University | HBKU · College of Public Policy
Anis Ben Brik
Phd, MPA
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Introduction
Associate Professor and President of the Society for Evaluation in the Global South (EvalSouth) and Founding Director of the Program for Social Policy and Evaluation Research (PROSPER) at the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Research on Resilience, Welfare Systems, Policy Evaluation, in the Gulf, the MENA region and the Global South
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January 2020 - present
September 2015 - December 2019
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Publications (53)
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful for individuals worldwide, including parents. Most research investigating stress during the pandemic has focused on single stressors in relation to outcomes and has been conducted in Western countries. Among parents from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries, the present study used latent class a...
The global health crisis prompted Arabian Gulf states to implement extensive social protection measures to address public health and economic challenges. This study critically examines welfare reforms enacted by six Gulf countries – Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman – through the theoretical lenses of Welfare Regime Theory and Pun...
This study bridges the study of social inclusion with welfare regime theory. By linking social inclusion with welfare regimes, we establish a novel analytical framework for assessing global trends and national divergences in social inclusion based on a multidimensional view of the concept. While scholars have developed typologies for social inclusi...
As pressures build, this study can serve as a guidepost for scholars and policymakers to learn from global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy. Our systematic review of global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy points to the general expansion and retrenchment of social inclusion policy amid increasing social e...
Public Policy in the Arab World dissects the layered social, economic, and governance issues that define the Middle East and Northern African (MENA) region and evaluates whether policy is helping or hindering social vulnerabilities in the Arab World. Paying special attention to the Arab Spring protests and the COVID-19 pandemic, this insightful boo...
This study investigated family mechanisms through which pandemic stressors affect parental stress using the Double ABC‐X model of family stress and adaptation. Specifically, this study examines the moderated mediation effects to test the conditional indirect influence of a moderating variable (i.e., family resilience beliefs) on the relationship be...
This study examined a moderated mediation model examining parent stress from the pile-up of pandemic-related stressors informed by the Double ABCX theoretical model of family stress and adaptation. Participants included a subset (n = 25346) of nine Asian countries’ (China, N = 5387; India, N = 4892; Indonesia, N = 3651; Malaysia, N = 3768; Philippi...
Despite the extensive body of evidence documenting how pandemic‐related stressors (e.g., disruptions in daily routine) impact individuals' mental health, research examining family mechanisms through which stressors impact parental stress remains insufficient. The present study aims to address this gap by exploring a moderated mediation model that p...
The study aims to investigate factors within the double ABC‐X model to explain parents' stress during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic, with a focus on adaptive resources (i.e., parent–child relationship and relationship quality) and the moderating effect of appraisal (i.e., family resilience beliefs). Drawing on a sample of 1386 American pa...
The COVID‐19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the mental health and well‐being of families worldwide, with parents particularly at risk for stress and other psychological symptoms. In this study, we sought to understand the factors contributing to parent stress symptoms during the early stages of the pandemic in 23 European countries ( N =...
The present study investigated the impact of cyberbullying on youth cyberbullicide ideation. It examined the effects of cyberbullying variables, namely cyberbullying victimization, cyberbullying perpetrator, and low self-control on cyberbullicide ideation. Descriptive statistical analyses and logistic regression analyses were conducted using a samp...
This study assesses the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among Qatari parents during the pandemic lockdown. A valid and reliable questionnaire was distributed online, via social media sites, phone, and emails to recruit Qatari parents or caregivers of children under 18 years old in Qatar. A total of 2318 parents participated in the stu...
Objectives: This study aims to test the core assumption of Agnew's general strain theory(GST) in maladaptive behavior (substance use, suicidality, and school truancy). Testing the effects of strain variables (negative life events) on negative emotions that lead to maladaptive behaviors or criminal coping. Methods: A survey was used, and a questionn...
Objective
The goal was to explore mechanisms linking cumulative stressors with parent stress during COVID‐19.
Background
Public health measures helped contain COVID‐19 spread, but disrupted family life and increased parents' stress. Positive family relationships and beliefs about the impact of challenges can foster psychological resilience during...
Purpose
This study aims to examine social determinants and social strains of cyberbullying victimization among expatriate populations in high-income countries such as Qatar. The authors argue that expatriate students will be exposed to stains and pressures due to several factors, such as feeling alienated, lonely, homesick, insecure and helpless. T...
The paper analyses the effects of strain variables (school delinquency, public disturbances, crimes, assaults, imprudent behaviour, violence, delinquency and negative emotions) on cyberbullying victimization of high school students in Qatar (N = 1733, 55% males, 45% of females). Findings indicate that a fifth of students reported bullying victimiza...
This study examined parents’ (N = 10,141, 64% women) reports of their and their childrens’ depression, anxiety, and stress in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. The data come from the COVID‐19 Family Life Study (Ben Brik, 2020) and cohort recruited between April and December 2020. Participants completed online surveys that included the DASS‐21...
Objective:
We examined how relationship satisfaction changed during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as how relationship satisfaction related to public policy support.
Background:
Conservation of resources (COR) theory suggests that societal-level stressors (such as a global pandemic) threaten familial and individual resources, strai...
This book critically reflects on the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by exploring the impact and possible future outcomes in a region already struggling with the effects of a decade of uprisings, failed or difficult political transitions, state collapses, civil war and international conflict. Internatio...
This paper reviews recent demographic and familial changes in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), which parallel the developments associated with the second demographic transition that has transformed population profiles and family life in the more developed OECD countries. The emerging needs for family-oriented policies are analyse...
This article examines the comparative impact of COVID-19 in terms of the number of cases per capita and the per capita mortality rate and an- alyzes the relationships between these impact estimates and three policy measures in 20 OECD countries, controlling for the population over age 65. The policy measures involve public and private health expend...
This forward-thinking book examines the future of public policy as a discipline, both as it is taught and as it is practiced. Critically assessing the limits of current theories and approaches, leading scholars in the field highlight new models and perspectives.
Chapters present data on what is taught in policy schools, using survey results from s...
The changing patterns of social relations in modern times have weakened the bonds of family life and the capacity of this institution to perform its functions essential to human development. Conventional analyses of the impact of family policies tend to focus on the extent to which these measures help to reconcile work and family life, advance gend...
This timely volume explores the impact of dramatic social change that has disrupted established patterns of family life and human development in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It addresses several major deficits in knowledge regarding family issues in the Gulf countries, bringing a critical perspective to the emerging challenges fac...
The COVID-19 Family Life Study is a research study that explores the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on family life across cultures. The data was collected via snowball sampling starting May 30, 2020 through a survey instrument that was translated by volunteers into 18 languages. The study provides robust and reliable data to inform the design...
This article provides a review of indicators of child well-being in the six Gulf countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), focusing on well-being in six domains: physical health, behavioral adjustment, psychological well-being, social relationships, safety, and cognitive well-being. The purpose of the rev...
This article provides a review of policies and programmes to promote child well-being in the Gulf Countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates). An overview is provided of the international agenda (e.g. the Sustainable Development Goals) and national strategies as they provide broad policy frameworks in which...
This paper highlights the importance of housing welfare system in shaping family formation decision and family dissolution. The paper builds on the notion of the meaning of home as a spatial context in which human existence are performed. The meaning of control of housing space is often linked to the meaning of the family and the concept “ontologic...
A number of highly publicized, controversial lapses in social responsibility within global supply chains have forced managers and scholars to reexamine long-held perspectives on supplier selection. Extending Carter and Jennings’ department-level study of purchasing social responsibility, our research assesses the role of supply managers’ ethical in...
Building on Carter and Jennings (2002a,b, 2004) seminal works on socially responsible purchasing and logistics, this multinational study investigates the extent to which socially responsible supplier selection (SRSS) is associated with customer firms' financial performance in three key world economic regions. We collect and utilize a unique dataset...
In spite of the burgeoning interest in green supply chain management in Western developed countries and large emerging economies, little research exists on the topic in small emerging and developing countries. In this study, we surveyed firms based in Dubai to identify the main drivers of green supply chain management and their impact on supply cha...
This study examines the moderating effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the association between market orientation
and firm performance in the context of an emerging economy. The results from a sample of firms that operate in Dubai indicate
that CSR has a synergistic effect on the impact of market orientation on business performance....
Although a number of studies have shown that corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities often lead to greater organisational
performance in western developed economies, researchers are yet to examine the strategic value of CSR in emerging economies.
Using survey data from 280 firms operating in Dubai, this study examines the link between CSR...